Doctor Who - Audio Details

A planetary ecological disaster...  An incurable, disfiguring, genetic disease...  Aliens, in breach of galactic law...

Nyssa, under arrest...  The TARDIS, inoperable...  The Doctor, facing interrogation...

Another situation of dire peril is unfolding for the Doctor and his companion.  However, what if it is not clear who is right and who is wrong?  Who is ugly and who is beautiful?

Where does the story begin, and where does it end?

Sometimes, it is all a matter of perspective.

SINCE DOCTOR WHO DIED at the BBC's Television Centre, we've all got to know it far more than some would say is healthy.  But I say 'Daleks!' to those who mock us.  We're having fun aren't we?  For now, our favourite thing lives on in books, comic strips and CDs.  We don't actually have to worry about all its concepts being redesigned and made accessible for a less committed, general audience.  We know more or less everything there is to know about Doctor Who... which is why, when I came to write my last Doctor Who script for the foreseeable future, I set out to write for the real target audience: an audience that already knows the Doctor and his girl aren't going to die, no matter how perilous the situation.  An audience that knows the Doctor is always the cleverest person in any given situation and that he will, by and large, work everything out.  How do you change that and still write something that is recognisable as Doctor Who?

Maybe its all a question of perspective.  If you start to look at something familiar from different viewpoints, you start to look at it in a different way.  So, Creatures of Beauty doesn't change the essentials of Doctor Who.  Everything you'd expect is here, but instead of the story chiefly being told to reveal 'what' is happening, I'm more concerned with 'why' and 'how' it is happening.

Viewed from a different times, places and people, the familiarity of Doctor Who may start to seem distinctly alien.

Nicholas Briggs, March 2003